[A. Pole]

Russian President Vladimir Putin was Boris Yeltsin's chosen successor. Putin was appointed as President by Yeltsin before there was ever any election. Russia's enthusiastic embrace of Yeltsin's chosen successor was hardly a repudiation of Yeltsin's policies.

Actually it is. Yeltsin at the end implicitly admitted the failure of his policies and the nomination of Putin was part of that.

The straw that broke the camel's back was the 1999 NATO attack on Serbia (followed by not abiding by the Kosovo compromise) and Western political support for Islamists in Chechnya.

[Carry_Okie]

The straw that broke the camel's back was the 1999 NATO attack on Serbia (followed by not abiding by the Kosovo compromise) and Western political support for Islamists in Chechnya.

Thanks to Bill Clinton and our leftist Department of State.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Putin hasn't changed Yeltsin's policies. He still supports Iranian jihadists. Is that supposed to make us reverse our own policies?

Actually we already have, but we got nothing in return. It was Clinton who attacked Serbia and supported the Chechens. The USA voted his party out. Russia punishes Bush for what was done by Clinton but forgives Putin for doing exactly the same things as Yeltsin did.